Deploying websites over dinner

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:30:50 -0400

Over dinner with Nishka, we were trying to deploy a website. The challenge was: How can we deploy this website, just on mobile, without getting up from the dinner table?

STEP 1: Hosting. On my phone, I dictated to ChatGPT (whose transcription is excellent), copy-pasted that to Gemini (which is faster):

I want to publish specifically a static HTML web page on my own domain.
I want the easiest way that I can host it, preferably just by copy-pasting from my mobile without needing to muck around with Git and the likes of it.
What are the most robust, reliable hosting providers that I could use? I can sort out the domain name myself as long as they support an option to map a custom domain name to them.
Ideally, I am looking for something that is free, preferably free forever.

Google internal subdomains

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Google’s internal subdomains.

Domain name analysis

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Domain name analysis. All two-letter and three-letter acronyms are taken. About 80% of 4-letter acronyms are taken. All common names are taken. 90% of common full names are taken. And more.

Competition for ICANN

Sat, 09 Dec 2000 12:00:00 +0000

ICANN isn’t the only domain-name body. There’s competition for that too, with YouCANN, Open-RSC and others. Wired has the story

dns on S Anand

Deploying websites over dinner

Google internal subdomains

Domain name analysis

Competition for ICANN